Ecstasy and the Rise of the Chemical Generation (Paperback)

Drug users are no longer a mad, bad or immoral minority. Using drugs is normal for the chemical generation, and the drug that defines them is ecstasy. This book about ecstasy users' lives is based on one of the biggest government-funded projects ever undertaken and gives voice to the chemical generation for the first time. The effects of the manufacture, distribution and use of ecstasy are now being felt across much of the globe. In the UK, where the study was conducted, over fifty per cent of young people use drugs, a quarter of them regularly. The people in this book are ordinary, decent, family-loving people, with normal lives, normal problems and normal aspirations. Through their own words we hear how they first started using ecstasy, how they use it in different ways, why clubbing and raving are so important, how good sex is on ecstasy, how they chill out, how they come down, what problems they encountered and why they quit. And what happened to these normal people when they used ecstasy? Nothing. Yet. This path breaking book ends by trying to answer the questions on the lips of every member of the chemical generation: what are the long-term effects of ecstasy? Because we can't answer them, the authors claim, we are failing in our duty to our children: telling them not to take ecstasy is alienating and pointless.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2001
First published:	2002
Authors:	Jason Ditton • Richard Hammersley • Furzana Khan
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	188
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-27041-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > Drug addiction & substance abuse
LSN:	0-415-27041-3
Barcode:	9780415270410

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